http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Ghana is recalling a shipment of 120 million Chinese-made condoms distributed to charities in the country after testing showed that they were riddled with holes and prone to breaking, an official said Tuesday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-ghana-recalls-million-faulty-chinese.html HIV & AIDS Tue, 23 Apr 2013 12:51:02 EST news285940256 Subtle changes in messaging can have a profound impact on the effectiveness of charitable messages such as calls for blood donations, according to research published March 6 in the open access journal PLOS ONE by Eileen Chou from the University of Virginia and co-author Keith Murnighan at Northwestern University. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-death-message-effective-life-blood.html Other Wed, 06 Mar 2013 17:00:05 EST news281808436 Britain's National Health Service may soon offer women at high risk of developing breast cancer drugs normally used to treat the disease as a prevention strategy. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-uk-drugs-breast-cancer.html Cancer Tue, 15 Jan 2013 08:23:45 EST news277460619 (AP)—New York's attorney general says the nation's two largest breast cancer charities have adopted his guidelines for fuller disclosure by those selling pink products and services in their names. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-cancer-groups-disclosures-pink-wares.html Cancer Thu, 18 Oct 2012 10:30:57 EST news269775037 A lead poisoning epidemic in Nigeria's north that has killed 400 children and affected thousands is the worst in modern history, but cleanup has not even begun in many areas, Human Rights Watch said Tuesday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-nigeria-poisoning-worst-modern-history.html Health Tue, 07 Feb 2012 06:57:50 EST news247820239 Despite current public and expert opinion to the contrary, having the neurological condition epilepsy is not directly associated with an increased risk of committing violent crime. However, there is an increased risk of individuals who have experienced previous traumatic brain injury going on to commit violent crime according to a large Swedish study led by Seena Fazel from the University of Oxford, UK, and colleagues at the Karolinska Institutet, Sweden, and Swedish Prison and Probation Service, and published in this week's PLoS Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-epilepsy-linked-committing-violent-crime.html Medical research Tue, 27 Dec 2011 17:00:01 EST news244197081 Experts led by Newcastle University are designing and building a system aimed at combating malnutrition in older people in hospitals. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-tackling-malnutrition-older-patients-wards.html Health Tue, 29 Nov 2011 07:52:38 EST news241775523 From earthquakes and tsunamis to war and genocide which wreak devastation on millions of people around the world, human suffering is never far from the headlines. But how do policymakers, charities and medics decide how best to reach those in need and what influences their tactics and the style of humanitarian aid? http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-french-british-humanitarian-aid.html Health Tue, 21 Jun 2011 09:45:23 EST news227868303 New evidence commissioned by a leading partnership of food charities shows that a whole school approach to food that links practical food education with quality school dinners leads to a better family diet and can improve academic performance and behavior. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-school-meal-u-turn-cooking-skills.html Health Mon, 23 May 2011 10:20:26 EST news225364800